Converting to Sheet Metal and Repairing

To convert 3D geometry to a valid Sheet Metal part

A sheet metal part can be created from any 3D solid geometry, whether created in BricsCAD or imported from another CAD system. However, the geometry might not be a valid sheet metal model: missing bends and reliefs or thickness faces which are not orthogonal to the flange faces. BricsCAD Sheet Metal contains a dedicated toolset to convert such geometry to a valid sheet metal part and add all missing sheet metal features.

To repair a Sheet Metal part

A sheet metal part may have inaccuracies in geometry and topology or sheet metal design issues, which is often the case for imported parts which are designed in geometrical kernels different from ACIS.

Examples of such problems are:

thickness faces, which are not perpendicular to the flange/bend faces.

lofted bends are not-tangential to the adjacent flanges/bends.

wrong bends.

general ACIS issues.

Such problems can prevent editing operations from being executed successfully.